[Unattended] Automating RAS connections

AMagnay Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:38:47 -0800

Checkout Microsoft Connection Manager Administration Kit, you'll find it in Add/Remove windows components on W2k Server. It was also in NT4 Option pack. With it you can create a dailler with phonebook and pre & post connection commands. Eg after connecting you can make it run a login script, fetch updates. I used it to make a dialler for MCI with all its worldwide pops (MCI's dialer was 16bit & numbers out of date). If you install the Phonebook service on IIS your dialler can get its numbers updated automatically.

Or you can do something with the command line RASDIAL.exe in Windows XP.

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Today's Topics:

1. Creating Dial-Up connections during installation. (DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1))
2. Parameters for automating application installation. (DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1))
3. RE: Creating Dial-Up connections during installation. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Todo.pl -- Restart (Steven D. Pretlove)
5. RE: Todo.pl -- Restart ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6. RE: Todo.pl -- Restart (Steven D. Pretlove)

----- Message from "DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:34:32 +0100 -----

To:	"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	[Unattended] Creating Dial-Up connections during installation.

Can anyone provide me with tips on how to automate the configuration of
dial-up connections? If it can be done without AUTOIT.

Thanks
Oriol de los Santos

----- Message from "DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:39:49 +0100 -----

To:	"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	[Unattended] Parameters for automating application installation.

In our win2000 clients we often have to install software that requires the
input of some parameters in order to customize the user connection data.

Is there a way to easily add additional questions in the initial phase of
the Unattended installation in order to provide extra parameters that could
be then be available during the execution of the application installation
scripts?

If this is not possible it would be a nice feature to have available.

Thanks
Oriol de los Santos

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To:	<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	RE: [Unattended] Creating Dial-Up connections during installation.

I use dial up magic, which is a small program that makes an exe file to duplicate an existing DUN connectoid, it is cheap and seems to work reasonably well, the home page is http://www.techmagic.com/ I run the resulting .exe by hand since it only applies to very few of my machines, but I see no reason why you couldn't script it

Kevin Lawry

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Subject: [Unattended] Creating Dial-Up connections during installation.

Can anyone provide me with tips on how to automate the configuration of
dial-up connections? If it can be done without AUTOIT.

Thanks
Oriol de los Santos

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----- Message from "Steven D. Pretlove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:16:58 -0000 -----

To:	<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	[Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

Hi all,

when todo.pl processes .reboot (or one of its variations) it places the run command in the HKCU Run reg key

I have need to set the computer to logon as a administrator (using autolog.pl), reboot the machine, log on as admin, install program, clear autologon and then finally reboot.

all the above I can do quite successfully, once I manually kick of the todo.pl --go after the initial reboot and logon as admin

does anyone else do something like this if so how did you get round the problem ???

my initial thoughts is to write a bat file to the allusers/start-up directory to run the "mapznrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl --go" command and then clear it out at the end. much the same as the current method, just allowing for anyuser to logon afterwards and the command to still run.

other thoughts included changing the reg key from HKCU to HKLM but users by default do not have write permission

All advice greatly appreciated

_________________________________
Steven Pretlove
Dominos Pizza Group Limited

Infrastructure Support Analyst

To:	<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

I do something similar, but I have a shutdown script make the registry change, the system has permission to change the registry. In my case it is triggered by a change to a central database (a grand name for a shared ini file), however you could use any trigger you like.

as an alternative, if you are at the machine, have you tried running the script using RUNAS and your admin credentials?

Regards

Kevin Lawry
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven D. Pretlove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 November 2003 14:17
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

Hi all,

when todo.pl processes .reboot (or one of its variations) it places the run command in the HKCU Run reg key

I have need to set the computer to logon as a administrator (using autolog.pl), reboot the machine, log on as admin, install program, clear autologon and then finally reboot.

all the above I can do quite successfully, once I manually kick of the todo.pl --go after the initial reboot and logon as admin

does anyone else do something like this if so how did you get round the problem ???

my initial thoughts is to write a bat file to the allusers/start-up directory to run the "mapznrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl --go" command and then clear it out at the end. much the same as the current method, just allowing for anyuser to logon afterwards and the command to still run.

other thoughts included changing the reg key from HKCU to HKLM but users by default do not have write permission

All advice greatly appreciated

_________________________________
Steven Pretlove
Dominos Pizza Group Limited

Infrastructure Support Analyst

To:	<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:	RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

the main use for this, is to distribute applications after the inital roll out.

My first attempt was to create an asp page that created the remote process on the clients machine running the mapznrun program under its context, but microsoft has put a stop to that by not allowing the spawned process to interact with the desktop.

Second was to get it to produce an AT job (which does allow the job to interact with the desktop) but relies heaverly on the times being Identical (issue in its own right) plus the job would have to be scheduled upto 60 secs in the future (problem for users)

Third is to use the mapznrun in its native enviroment, but this can also cause problems. i.e. if a user ctrl breaks while the todo.pl is running they are sitting there with a admin logon in front of them (NOT GOOD)

you can not script the RUNAS command as you say so that, is a no go the idea is to allow the users to install applications if they need to.

Cheers

Steve
(01908) 580623

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 November 2003 14:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

I do something similar, but I have a shutdown script make the registry change, the system has permission to change the registry. In my case it is triggered by a change to a central database (a grand name for a shared ini file), however you could use any trigger you like.

as an alternative, if you are at the machine, have you tried running the script using RUNAS and your admin credentials?

Regards

Kevin Lawry
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven D. Pretlove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 November 2003 14:17
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

Hi all,

when todo.pl processes .reboot (or one of its variations) it places the run command in the HKCU Run reg key

I have need to set the computer to logon as a administrator (using autolog.pl), reboot the machine, log on as admin, install program, clear autologon and then finally reboot.

all the above I can do quite successfully, once I manually kick of the todo.pl --go after the initial reboot and logon as admin

does anyone else do something like this if so how did you get round the problem ???

my initial thoughts is to write a bat file to the allusers/start-up directory to run the "mapznrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl --go" command and then clear it out at the end. much the same as the current method, just allowing for anyuser to logon afterwards and the command to still run.

other thoughts included changing the reg key from HKCU to HKLM but users by default do not have write permission

All advice greatly appreciated

_________________________________
Steven Pretlove
Dominos Pizza Group Limited

Infrastructure Support Analyst

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